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Entry: Sambo's Grave, Sunderland Point, Lancashire, UK - A26107166
Author: Icy North - U225620

I enjoyed visiting this place a week or so ago. Let me know what you think...

Icy

I think it's a great Entry. What a sad little tale

Thank you for sharing though.

As far as reviewing, I couldn't find fault. Just some EG links (a recent Entry on slavery comes to mind) would help put some more background knowledge into possible questions asked while reading

It's a beautiful story, of our most shameful period in history.

lil xx

Thanks both - that's much appreciated.

I've added a few links - most of them under

Icy

I think you just need to sit on his little now mate

A very touching entry, this. I presume all the 'errors' are faithful reproductions of archaic English, ie. 'died *in* his arrival' rather than died *on*?

Yes - it's a nice one. He must have been valued to be given a marker, rather just buried in an unmarked plot.

Wilberforce grabs a lot of the credit for stopping the slave trade, but it was the Quaker women who did really started the groundswell against slavery.

Thanks all

Mackay - I've slightly re-worded the Wilberforce reference.

Iaconian, yes, I tried to reproduce the inscription as etched. Here's a link to a photo of the original, for your information:

http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/blog1/0507/images/240705-05.jpg

I could add those long S's in the first blockquote. I think there's a supported character for those.

Icy

... forgot to say - you were right about "in his arrival" - my transcribing error.

Nice article; concise, informative and tugs at a heart string or two. What a desolate place to end your days. Heaven for Wildfowlers, Hell for an African slave.

Extremely moving Icy!

Thanks both!

I've added a couple of BBC links, and I think I'm done now.

Icy

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